“Spectaculum facti sumus Deo, angelis et hominibus. These are the words of St. Paul, Englished thus, ‘We are made a spectacle unto God, unto His angels and unto men,’ verified this day in me, who are here a spectacle unto my Lord God, a spectacle unto His angels and unto you men.”—English Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540-1581), standing on the scaffold, awaiting martyrdom for alleged conspiracy to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I, December 1, 1581, quoted in Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion (1935)
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